terça-feira, 15 de novembro de 2016

A question that always comes up whenever I meet someone new in Peru is:

Why did you decide to come to Peru, especially Trujillo? How did you do it?

First of all, we have to consider my professional trajectory and remember that it is not very easy to find a job at an international school if you are not a native speaker of the English Language(America, British, Australian, Canadian, etc).

In this quest I received contact from 2 schools, one in Trujillo(Peru) and Cochabamba(Bolívia) and, for different reasons, among them the possibility of acquiring experience in the International Baccalaureate, I ended up deciding to come to Trujillo and here I am for almost one year and a half.

Eu ando pelo mundo prestando atenção em cores - which means I walk throughout the world paying attention in colours. I completely adore this song and it was more or less how I felt first time I went abroad(to live). You can listen to it here?

However, as I decided to change a little bit the language, focus and the direction of the blog I thought I should probably also think about changing the tittle of it, even though the link I won´t be able to do it. So I decided to take a look in the Travel Songs Playlist I have created before I came to Peru. (Writing as an idea for a post to organize this playlist here),

This playlist has songs in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

And one of the songs I like a lot, it is not a very catchy song, but has an awesome lyrics which I relate a lot to it. The feeling of going away, getting to know different cultures, places and horizons makes me have a much wider vision of the world.

The song is Citizen of the planet from Alanis Morissete. You can hear it here and see the lyrics underneath it.

segunda-feira, 7 de novembro de 2016

Sometimes I hear this question from people and my answer is
never saying the name of the countries I have visited. I always have to start
explaining what ´knowing a country` means to me.

I don´t feel comfortable saying that I know some country I
have visited for a week, a couple of days or even some few hours. For me knowing
a country means you understand different things such as:

·The weather and geography of it;

·You have at least an idea of the type of music they
like to listen to and dance;

·Tried many different types of typical food;

·Learn about different habits;

·You have learned how to cook at least a few of
their typical food;

·Awareness of how their religious and/or
spiritual beliefs work;

·Learn some of their history;

·General idea, at least, from the political/economical
situation in which the country lives;

·You have visited some of their touristic and
natural places;

·Participate in local events;

·You realized the differences between their own
culture.

Among others, these are the main ones but not the only.

My question is how can you get to know all this in a week,
living in a hotel, going only for touristic places and eating in restaurants?

Map of the countries I have lived/visited

Peru is the third country I am living in and even when I am
telling something how it works I make sure I say that this is my experience in
this time and in this place.

Generalizing how a country works is very dangerous and can
be very inaccurate when you are traveling just for vacations, because even
inside of the same country you can find so many differences: different types of
food, accents, behaviours, sense of community, awareness and concern for the
evironment, etc.

So, for me the only way I will be able to say I
know a country is when I get to know many of the things I just said. In this
sense, I dare to day I know only three countries and they are Brazil, Venezuela
and Peru because I lived in it, and that´s why I decided to work as an
international teacher.

sábado, 5 de novembro de 2016

As I explained in the previous post(in Portuguese) the objective of the blog(when I first created it) was to show first my family and friends what I was doing while in my exchange in Venezuela and also to show other people who could be interested in the country.

My new objective is show the place where I am living(Peru) and also be able to Interact with other bloggers who might have a similar experience(International teaching), so I decided to change the language from Portuguese to English.

I meant to write with more frequency when I just moved. But too many things as usual and I didn´t give myself lots of time to do it, but now really coming back, so wait for many news around here.